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That is not a technical limitation but a legal one.

• tpmx 7y ago
  Yes. The NSA is is breaking the law here.
  • jaywalk 7y ago
    You have no way of knowing that. They could have an agreement with Google to allow this.
    • milankragujevic 7y ago
      Agreed. The copyright holder / trademark owner must be the party that wants to limit distribution, not the government or some unrelated third party. i.e. if I see you producing fake Coca Cola drinks, I can't sue you for infringing on The Coca Cola Company's trademark. They would have to sue you. Same applies for the government. And of course, if NSA does have an agreement with Google to reverse proxy https://google.com/ https://google.com/, them doing exactly that would be perfectly legal. I presume they have SOME sort of agreement, and aren't just doing this behind Google's back, as the website is on HN's first page in the first 5 places for an hour already, and Google hasn't banned access. Try getting even 50 Google queries with a reverse proxy, and you will see what I mean -- they will show you a progressively more difficult ReCAPTCHA until a certain treshold, after which the CAPTCHA is unsolvable and is there only to waste your time. This hasn't happened to HN readers [yet].
      • tpmx 7y ago
        Meanwhile I presume they misconfigured a service meant for doing captcha checks using Google. What's more likely? Why are you so aggressively.. eh.. okay, not going to write that.
  • rabuse 7y ago
    They most certainly have an agreement with Google here.
    • ryanlol 7y ago
      Why?
      • tpmx 7y ago
        Because some people on HN voted so, I suppose? So much aggressive and frankly stupid presumption here. But, the vote wins! I just don't understand people here. Obviously it's perfectly natural for a trillion dollar company to allow a government agency to use their brand on their government domain - without any notice it all. Especially a government agency that is tasked with surveillance. Yeah, there's really no problem with that. It's that, or someone messed up setting up a captcha service for some public NSA service. What would be more likely?
        • ryanlol 7y ago
          Yeah, I get strong chemtrail vibes from many of the comments here.
          • tpmx 7y ago
            Why did HN turn so stupid, all of a sudden? It used to be relatively smart.
            • ta999999171 7y ago
              Eternal September. Astroturfing. Both are against the roolz to discuss. Take your pick.
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